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Yep. Survived such an idiot.

Many of these "business geniuses" do the following:

• buy struggling business cheap
• reduce expenses (biggest expense is always salaries, so fire a lot of people)
• on paper, the business is making money (while the rest of the staff frantically try to survive without enough manpower and with a lot of loss on knowledge and experience)
• sell doomed business before it collapses (remember: on paper, it looks healthy)

I love that the guy’s tattoos change constantly:

• snake on right arm
• snake moves to the left arm
• apple gets bite taken from it as snake is now a real creature

So many little details in this comic!

What... The heck... Is going on in that factory!? What's with all the random changes and references?

This is how private equity MBAs have ruined everything.

So many oligarchs and wannabe oligarchs to choose from...

URGENT: ALWAYS COMPLETE YOUR SHIFT AND CLEAN YOUR AREA BEFORE FIGHTING DEMONIC FORCES

A wild Homer Simpson appears

Thomas Pickety lays out the mechanics of this transference in Capitalism In The Twenty-First Century.

He establishes a comparison between the domestic rate of economic growth (typically measured in GDP) relative to the average return on investment (typically measured by bond rates or annualized stock market asset inflation). He finds that when GDP < ROI, wealth aggregates into the hands of a small pool of elites. Meanwhile, when GDP > ROI, wealth diffuses to the general public (the so-called Trickle Down Economics promised by Reagan).

These leveraged buyouts are only possible when private lenders can generate a compounding return in fictitious assets that outpaces a return investing in material capital and labor improvements. And the compounding return is, at its heart, a consequence of unpaid wages, bad debt, and unaccounted depreciation.

Picketty concludes that the most straightforward remedy to rebalancing GDP and ROI is to tax capital gains. This effectively forces down the ROI, while redirecting cash flow to public investments that boost GDP without triggering an inflationary spiral.

But what he can't answer is how to address the social dynamic that allows taxes to fall and predatory business practices to accumulate. Media manipulation, imperialist plundering, and the exploitation of domestic lower social castes can't be solved with tax policy. Who actually stops the Business Genius from wrecking the factory? What are the real material functions of the economy being controlled? And how do a handful of individuals successfully rent-seek from them without triggering a public revolt?

Classic plot of most of the Reddit revenge and Youtube channels.

I bought the company and I will short the stock.

I live how the title is misspelled.

Edit: My own typo above is unintentional, but too funny to fix.

"THIS TINY TEXT IS WAY TOO SMALL TO BE READ, SORRY!"

So there's Homer, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and Brain (From Pinky and the Brain).

Did I miss any other reference?